#whatwillweplaytoday Make a bug hotel 🐞🐜🕷🐛🦋🕸
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Children love minibeasts. They like to find them and look at them. (You might not feel so keen!) Encourage this interest and curiosity by building a bug hotel or bug house in your garden, or even in your local woodland area. .
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Gather twigs, old bricks, pine cones, bits of wood and anything else around. Build them up so there’s lots of nooks and crannies, (bugs love small, dark spaces) sprinkle it with water to make it damp and let the children observe any changes and have a nosey with a magnifying glass to see what they can spot over the next few days. It’s a fun way to find out about habitats; learn the names and facts about different minibeasts; and begin to understand life cycles if you spot any eggs. May prompt writing opportunities if they keep a log of their ‘hotel visitors’ and their observations ☺️ #dkhk_bugs

#whatwillweplaytoday Get in the garden 🌵🌿🌺🌼🍃
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Be green fingered and do some planting. Or get them to help with the weeding and watering 💦Talk to them about different types of trees and flowers; show them the different parts of the plant and explain what they need in order to grow. Most children love to get their hands messy and soil feels so good too! If you don’t have a garden, make an indoor potted plant like 👆It could become a small world scene, e.g. a fairy garden; a land of dinosaurs; a woodland for dragons. Their imagination will lead the way. And it can be their responsibility to tend to it and keep it thriving 👍

Its holiday time again! Parents what are your plans for bonding and teaching good character traits to your children this summer holiday?
Are you balancing academics with behavior or simply raising children one-sidedly?
We came up with this concept.. A monthly character chart. It comes with stickers and it is totally reusable. Available in paper print and flexible plastic.
The Character Chart comes in a Monthly view, which makes you see the performance over the period and at the end of which rewards can be given.
We believe that with consistency, @lglprints charts could help parents interacting well with their children and teaching them valuable traits that makes them socially responsible citizens... What trait did we miss?
Please give us your suggestions! #summerholiday#Childrensgames#ideasforsummer#activitiesforchildren#charts#PRINTING#schoolsupplies#backtoschool#behavedchildren#kidsideas

Y'all loved the shirt making idea so I thought I'd share another one from a few years ago. I made some stamps out of potatoes and grabbed some @ilovetocreate tulip fabric paint. We decided on fruit stamps, but you could do so many different things. You definitely could just use sponges or stencils but my girls thought it was so fun and cool to make stamps out of potatoes.

It’s the first week with kids home. I’m not gonna lie, yesterday was a bit of a struggle but in the end it was a good day. The boys have their new daily chore list as well as an optional weekly paid jobs chart if they would like to earn some extra cash.
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The chore list is required to earn screen time & is also non negotiable. I have a few things on the list that are already proving to be amazing. Play outside for 4 hours (unless it’s raining) & an additional 30 minutes of physical activity but my favorite thing on that list is - Do something creative.
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Kids need to use their mind. They need to create, play and be without screens for a good part of the day. So I don’t care what they create as long as it’s gets them thinking and trying to do something. #nocritiques
I plan to keep photos of the things that they create and make this summer and I can’t wait to see what they come up with! I may even do some fun daily challenges to see what they come up with & help give them a little jump start! What are your favorite creative things to do with your kids?
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#creativedirector#createsomething#summertime#summerbreak#schoolbreak#summercreations#momto3boys#boymom#getupandmove#dosomething#playoutside#ideasforkids#ideasforsummer